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Only nine days left on this diet. I gave up the whip cream, I jogged three times, and I didn’t eat the cake at the birthday party last weekend. Now comes the time when you start getting creative to really go out with a bag. I think I will download a book on self hypnosis, voodoo, and witchcraft. If you see a woman jogging down the street with a toy cupcake that has pins it and she is screaming “YOU DON’T SEE THE BAKERY”, just let her be and please don’t upload the video to Youtube.

Janet Maple’s stellar career ended with a layoff and her boyfriend of almost five years told her that he wants to be just friends. When she lands a job at one of New York’s premier boutique investment firms, Janet begins to hope that her luck is finally turning for the better. Not only is she happy with her new paycheck, but things also seem to be looking up on the personal front, as the company’s handsome attorney expresses keen interest in Janet. However, her euphoria is short-lived, as Janet soon discovers alarming facts about her new employer’s business tactics. When her boss dismisses her suspicions as groundless, Janet finds herself confiding to a cute IT engineer, Dean Snider. The closer she gets to Dean, the more Janet is tempted to break her rule of not dating co-workers, but what she doesn’t realize is that everything she knows about Dean, including his occupation and even his name, is a lie.

Dennis Walker is a top-notch white collar crime investigator who will stop at nothing to put culprits away. When an opportunity for an undercover assignment at one of New York’s premier boutique broker dealers comes up, Dennis jumps at the chance, adopting a persona of geeky IT engineer, Dean Snider. While he may be an ace at his job, years of experience fail him when Dennis meets Janet Maple and finds himself torn between his professional obligations and his personal desires. Will he have to choose between his feelings and duty, or will he find a way to satisfy both?

The end of the world has come, not with a whimper but in a bellowing roar. In an outbreak that spreads faster than any government can deal with, civilization is wiped out and chaos reigns true. The dead have risen and rule across the land, killing anyone or anything with a heartbeat.

Random groups have managed to survive among the living six months after the infection hit, but supplies are limited, exhaustion is constant, and places to hide are dwindling. When three groups of wayward people come together by chance, they must overcome their differences if they are going to beat the odds as they face tens of thousands of the ravenous undead.

It is 2023. Scientist David Proctor is running for his life. On his trail is Saskia Brandt, a detective with the European FIB. She has questions. Questions about a bomb that exploded back in 2003. But someone is hunting her too. The clues are in the shattered memories of her previous life.

Deja Vu takes the reader on a startling journey through a possible future, though digital minds, and through the consequences of the choices we make. It is the debut novel by Ian Hocking.

The story opens in St. Louis with the assassination of the President of the United States.The assassin simply walked away, drove to the airport and escaped.Special Agent Mike Trapper, a Secret Service agent and team leader for presidential security, follow his trail and connections across the country and around the globe.

It is soon discovered the plot is broad and planned over many decades.Mike and a team of specialists in Washington discover a network of “sleepers” who hold many positions in the government, and the chase is on to find where they will strike next.

Mike is hounded by the reason and objective of the attack.After three tours in Iraq, he knows the cost of failure and the price of personal injury.His heroism and leadership place him in a position requiring secrecy and determination as the plot expands to envelope the nation.

But the tension increases when he discovers his family is in the cross-hairs of the next attack.The evil he pursues seeks to turn against him and strike at his very heart, threatening his wife Elli, and their four children.

The compelling story in Oak Mountain is captivating.It is the first novel of the Oak Mountain trilogy and launches the reader into a spellbinding journey.The technology used in the story is contemporary, exciting, and real.The events portrayed could happen on the evening news any day, any time.

Join Special Agent Mike Trapper as he pursues those who would destroy a nation.Discover their targets and see how hard work, keen intuition and the high-tech tools of tomorrow save the day.

High school junior, Kylie Bates, can suddenly read minds. When she touches people’s hands, she’s able to see their deepest thoughts. As if that’s not freaky enough, her dad sends her to help hottie detective, Sam Williams, track down a missing girl. Way too much pressure, especially for a girl who can’t watch Scream without getting nightmares.

Then, finding the missing girl leads to much more than Kylie’s prepared for. Like discovering that her dad has been lying to her. That she has a family she never knew about. That the girls have powers similar to hers. Oh yeah, and that someone is out to get her.

When the detective’s teenage wanna-be-cop cousin, Trip Williams, approaches Kylie at school insisting she help him solve the case, she discovers Trip might be the only one she can trust, and the only one to help her unravel the secrets behind her mysterious gift.